Voting was tight—really tight—the whole time the poll was open, but Notepad++took the top spot with close to 40% of the overall vote. It may be Windows only, but it’s fast, flexible, feature-packed, and completely free.

Hot on its heels in second place was the cross-platform, extremely powerfulSublime Text, which powered through the call for contenders but came up just a little shy in the voting round, picking up about 33% of the overall vote. Behind it in third place with just shy of 20% of the votes cast was Vim (and its iterations). Fourth place went to the venerable Emacs, with 7% of the vote, and Atom, the new project from the folks at GitHub, picked up 2% of the vote and brought up the rear.